Saturday, April 29, 2006
Where I guard Anthony Rapp's CDs
I dreamed there was a huge music festival in our house. Anthony Rapp was there, wearing a blue shirt, and I got to meet him. In fact, more than that - he asked me if I could guard his CD table while he went to go check on something. I said, sure, no problem. His CD table turned out to be in the little floor-level cupboard we keep our bowls and plates in. He put a stool and a bag of food inside the cupboard so I would be comfortable (although there's no way I could be really comfortable in there, considering I couldn't sit up all the way) and then went off to check out whatever he was checking on.
However, he never came back. I stayed there for like three days, and then eventually tried to find a program to see when the guy would be playing, so I could try and find him. The only schedule I found said that he was playing "windout," which meant he was the very last act on the very last day. I couldn't find anywhere listed on the schedule what day WAS the very last day, and wasn't sure what day today was, so eventually I just left the cupboard and wandered around.
I bought a few CDs, including a CD of Superchic[k] singing VeggieTales songs. Apparently most of these had been available on their website and now they were sticking them all on a CD.
I also watched a film clip where Idina Menzel and Mahalia Jackson were both up for a Dove Award for Best Song Written About Pennies. Idina's song "Penny" was nominated, as well as Mahalia's song apparently titled "Crawling For Pennies" or maybe "Carried By Pennies." Sandi Patty was presenting the award. The way the setup worked, Idina and Mahalia each had their own little podium with a mic, kind of like at a debate.
Sandi was obviously going to give Mahalia the Dove, but when she tried to pick up the mic from Mahalia to announce it, Mahalia wouldn't let her have it, so Sandi borrowed Idina's mic. Sandi was so grateful that Idina was so generous to her, that she decided to introduce her to the audience. "This is Idina," she said, and at that point dozens of reporters came swarming out asking Idina what it felt like to win the Dove Award.
Apparently this created a lot of controversy as to who REALLY won that award, Idina or Mahalia.
However, he never came back. I stayed there for like three days, and then eventually tried to find a program to see when the guy would be playing, so I could try and find him. The only schedule I found said that he was playing "windout," which meant he was the very last act on the very last day. I couldn't find anywhere listed on the schedule what day WAS the very last day, and wasn't sure what day today was, so eventually I just left the cupboard and wandered around.
I bought a few CDs, including a CD of Superchic[k] singing VeggieTales songs. Apparently most of these had been available on their website and now they were sticking them all on a CD.
I also watched a film clip where Idina Menzel and Mahalia Jackson were both up for a Dove Award for Best Song Written About Pennies. Idina's song "Penny" was nominated, as well as Mahalia's song apparently titled "Crawling For Pennies" or maybe "Carried By Pennies." Sandi Patty was presenting the award. The way the setup worked, Idina and Mahalia each had their own little podium with a mic, kind of like at a debate.
Sandi was obviously going to give Mahalia the Dove, but when she tried to pick up the mic from Mahalia to announce it, Mahalia wouldn't let her have it, so Sandi borrowed Idina's mic. Sandi was so grateful that Idina was so generous to her, that she decided to introduce her to the audience. "This is Idina," she said, and at that point dozens of reporters came swarming out asking Idina what it felt like to win the Dove Award.
Apparently this created a lot of controversy as to who REALLY won that award, Idina or Mahalia.
Labels: anthony rapp, idina menzel, mahalia jackson, sandi patty, superchick, veggietales
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Where we're doing skits for the AWANA leaders' appreciation
I dreamed we were doing the AWANA skit in drama to thank the leaders for having worked this year, except we were doing a series of skits. The first one was a serious one. In fact, it was the human video of Chris Rice's "Untitled Hymn" that we did a ways back.
Then we did this really, really stupid one that had no spiritual point at all and was mostly adlibbed. It involved like... being able to switch between worlds. There was this big dance pad on the floor, and it had four sections around the edge and then one in the middle. If you jumped in the middle and then on to one of the sections, it would switch to that world. I remember World #2 was like "Party" or something, and World #4 had a picture of stars and the sun on it and it was titled "Madness" and if I jumped on it we'd be transported to this world where everyone was nuts. At one point we also had people positioned in the audience to stand up and start acting crazy. I'm not sure why we did this. Why would we want to scare these people any more than they probably already were?
When it was finished, Jayme whispered to me, "That was horrible." I said no, it had gone well.
We had two more skits to do, one was silly and one was serious. There was a break, though, and we started mulling around and putting the set away. Melanie showed up in what was apparently a giant radish costume, but we told her she didn't have to wear it yet. So she took it off, and underneath she had this ENORMOUS fancy blue gown with like... giant ruffles around her neck. I remember one shot of her where she was walking out of the sanctuary, dragging the radish costume behind her.
Before we were to perform the other skits (one which featured the radish costume), Dacia had a song to sing. Well, at first it was Dacia. And at first she was singing "Untitled Hymn" but she kept laughing because she didn't know we were going to do a skit on it. As she walked closer to us, though, I saw it was really Carly, who was in the drama team LAST year, and she was singing parts of "Untitled Hymn" but parts of just her own song. Also, she was absolutely horrible. She kept trying to sing opera-like notes and changing keys all over the place. It was one of the worst singing jobs I've ever heard, and that includes Oi Holy Night. Amber was sitting next to me, and she pointed this out to me: "She's awful."
Then we did this really, really stupid one that had no spiritual point at all and was mostly adlibbed. It involved like... being able to switch between worlds. There was this big dance pad on the floor, and it had four sections around the edge and then one in the middle. If you jumped in the middle and then on to one of the sections, it would switch to that world. I remember World #2 was like "Party" or something, and World #4 had a picture of stars and the sun on it and it was titled "Madness" and if I jumped on it we'd be transported to this world where everyone was nuts. At one point we also had people positioned in the audience to stand up and start acting crazy. I'm not sure why we did this. Why would we want to scare these people any more than they probably already were?
When it was finished, Jayme whispered to me, "That was horrible." I said no, it had gone well.
We had two more skits to do, one was silly and one was serious. There was a break, though, and we started mulling around and putting the set away. Melanie showed up in what was apparently a giant radish costume, but we told her she didn't have to wear it yet. So she took it off, and underneath she had this ENORMOUS fancy blue gown with like... giant ruffles around her neck. I remember one shot of her where she was walking out of the sanctuary, dragging the radish costume behind her.
Before we were to perform the other skits (one which featured the radish costume), Dacia had a song to sing. Well, at first it was Dacia. And at first she was singing "Untitled Hymn" but she kept laughing because she didn't know we were going to do a skit on it. As she walked closer to us, though, I saw it was really Carly, who was in the drama team LAST year, and she was singing parts of "Untitled Hymn" but parts of just her own song. Also, she was absolutely horrible. She kept trying to sing opera-like notes and changing keys all over the place. It was one of the worst singing jobs I've ever heard, and that includes Oi Holy Night. Amber was sitting next to me, and she pointed this out to me: "She's awful."
Labels: amber, awana, carly, chris rice, dacia, drama, melanie
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Where Jayme won't let me tell her about my summer plans
I dreamed I was at drama. It was being held in the gym of the new building. There were several people walking around, including people I haven't seen in a very long time (like Justin H). Alicia, Chloe, and Karen were also there. I tried to present my idea for summer workships to Jayme, but every time I tried to tell her, she would say, "Tell me later, later. Not right now."
Labels: alicia, chloe, jayme, justin h, karen
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Where Trenton sings Superchick in falsetto
I dreamed we were doing the play and going over a scene between Trenton and Amber. Part of Trenton's part was to sing "Wonder" by Superchic[k] which is not even an appropriate song for him to sing contentwise. We stopped him halfway through the song and asked him to start over for some reason or other, and he started over, but sang it like an octave higher than he was, all in falsetto. It was horrible. Jayme said, "Well, start that over, and this time, maybe let your emotion show through." I went over and said, "Erm...don't we want to tell him to lower the key too?" and she said, "Oh, yeah, probably."
Labels: amber, jayme, superchick, trenton
